Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to announce 2016 presidential decision June 1

[Botany]

Source: Washington Post

Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), who in recent months has moved closer to running for president, said Monday that he will announce if he will make a White House bid on June 1 from South Carolina.

"I will make an announcement on June 1st. You're all invited to come -- spend money when you do -- and I will tell you what I’m going to do about running for president," Graham said on CBS "This Morning."

Although Graham initially declined to say if he is running when asked by the CBS hosts, he nonetheless indicated he is pursuing the GOP nomination – potentially declaring his candidacy ahead of schedule.

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"I'm running because of what you see on television. I'm running because I think the world is falling apart. I've been more right than wrong on foreign policy," Graham said. "It's not the fault of others, their lack of this or that that makes me want to run. It’s my ability in my own mind to be a good commander in chief and to make Washington work. “ "It's not the fault of others, their lack of this or that that makes me want to run. It’s my ability in my own mind to be a good commander in chief and to make Washington work. “

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/05/17/lindsey-graham-to-provide-very-important-update-on-2016-plans-monday/

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I've been more right than wrong on foreign policy," Graham said. Sure thing Lindsey that
whole Iraq thing has worked out just swell. Like the great Iraqi Army we trained and equiped who
tossed their weapons and ran when ISIS came into view.

[MrScorpio]

1. Just make sure you're not drinking a glass of milk within earshot of his announcement...

You wouldn't want it to go flying through your nose.

[rurallib]

2. punching his ticket for a ride on the clown bus

[Roy Rolling]

7. I was thinking the same thing

A clown car isn't big enough anymore for this gang of idiots.

[Cha]

13. Yeah, this car is getting a little crowded..

[Thespian2]

3. This wacko bottom-feeder wants

to pad his bank account with several millions from his favorite state...Israel...these bastards, like Graham, can smell the money in the water...

[PADemD]

15. Bingo

And if he loses in the first three states, he can drop out and keep what's left. I wonder if he would win SC.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Apparently he slipped and announced:

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., says of 2016 presidential race: 'I'm running because the world is falling apart'; will officially announce June 1

says the Twitter and picked up by Breaking News.

I so hope he picks Alabama's own Jeff Sessions as his running mate....

( If you have not seen Sessions, or heard him, do the Google)

[sarge43]

9. "The world is falling apart ... and I wanna help with that."

Pretty soon the Repubs are going to need a semi clown convoy.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Isn't that just the perfect remark?

So Bush like.

[Cha]

14. He's part of the problem and too stupid to know or too sociopathic to care.

A box car on those trains they don't like.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

29. Nah...

... a Barnum and Bailey circus train!

[sarge43]

32. But of course

[3catwoman3]

20. Ohhhhhhhh...

...ICK!!!

[onehandle]

5. SNL can hire Leslie Jordan to play him.

He played 'Beverley Leslie' on Will & Grace.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Jordan

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

6. They played a clip of him talking on Morning Joe today.

With him saying if he found out an American was planning to join ISIL, his response would be to send a drone to murder them, rather than police to arrest them.

[JI7]

8. hahahaha

[CanonRay]

10. "I'm running because the world is falling apart"

and he should know, he very much helped make it that way. Another Grade A Prime Asshole in the GOP race.

[gordianot]

11. How many GOP candidates have some sort of legal or mental health issues?

It may be important to replace them at short notice then Lindsey is your man. All those appearances on Meet the Press must be good for something.

[Ford_Prefect]

16. Another One Rides the Bus!

Firesign had it so right all along.

[colsohlibgal]

17. Kind of Surprising

He'll have little or no chance. especially as a republican, not sure they're ready for a "confirmed bachelor".

[Tom Ripley]

18. Don't be so coy, Blanche

[heaven05]

19. another idiot

getting on the clown bus the RWers are renting.

[durablend]

21. More more more!

Then maybe after 50 debates Mitt Romney can announce he's running again!

[hibbing]

22. giggle...n/t

[They_Live]

23. I could use some cash...

maybe I'll run as well!

[Politicalboi]

24. I'm getting the vapors just thinking about it

[BigDemVoter]

25. SO. . . Miss Scarlett is going to run after all?

[MosheFeingold]

26. You all need to channel your inner Francis Underwood

Silly. He's not in it to win. Not remotely serious. Nor even to make money.

Graham is a member of the Republican Elite. The Republican Elite Chosen One is Jeb Bush. Miss Lindsey* is in it to help Mr. Bush.

The South Carolina primary looks very bad for Bush but good for TEA publican types: Cruz, Walker, etc. It's on the early side of the primary season. Iowa is also bad for Jeb.

Graham will at least muddle SC for the TEApublicans, and perhaps win it. a decisive win by an outsider would crush Bush. Miss Lindsey will prevent an early demise of Jeb and make it a longer haul, where Jeb's superior money raising machine will take over.

Ah, all you amateurs. You think we live in something that resembles a Democracy. Both parties have their candidates chosen for them.


* I am old and reserve the right to mock closeted Republican gay men. I am not anti-gay. I am anti-hypocrite.

[eissa]

27. I'm so stoked about this!

That he announces before Jon Stewart signs off from The Daily Show just makes me giddy! I can't WAIT for Jon to cover this *fans self*

[BumRushDaShow]

28. Does this mean that we can rid the airwaves of this Sunday blabfest GOP shill?

[YOHABLO]

30. These so-called candidates don't have a chance in the world of getting elected. None of them.

It would seem to me that Graham is just as delusional as all the rest. It's so pathetic that the American public will have to endure this long drawn out fiasco.

[Thor_MN]

31. Will he actually use the words "I do declare my candidacy for the President of these United States."

[0rganism]

33. oh please let it be so

Lindsey (mind if i call you Lindsey, senator?) is the best self-caricature the GOP has offered up since Newt. and he's mainstream enough to take support away from Jeb and Rubio. he's a perfect addition to their ever-growing clown posse.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

34. Idiots like yourself LIndsey will just wreck it some more

That is a fact.